@sdetweil That stopped it and now all seems normal again… I have no idea how I started a second instance but it’s good to know the stop all… Thank you Sam
Dennis

@sdetweil Thanks Sam… always has the answer.

I’m reading about widgits which I don’t know much about. I’m looking for a widgit that would allow me to watch in real time a webpage with no api on my magicmirror. Anyone know of such a widgit or where I can browse all the widgits available?
Thanks all you smart people out there.
Dennis

So sorry… Your right of course…I don’t know how I got it confused either… I’ll check it again and won’t make that mistake again…
Again I apologize for the error… I should know better than that and be more careful.
Thank you for replying.
Dennis N6NG

@sdetweil I typed it in straight from the keyboard… No copy and paste at all… Still the still the same error…
Dennis

@N6NG When I put the
exec (“/usr/bin/vcgencmd display_power 0”, null);
in the config.js I get an error. When I run npm run config:check it says that line has an Unexpected token
“/usr/bin/vcgencmd display_power 0”

Dennis

@sdetweil Ok Sam… thanks I’ll give it a try and see how it does… will let you know…

Dennis

@N6NG Do I modify it where it is or do I copy it into the config.js ? If I modify it where it is and change the sensor pin what would I put in the config.js?

@sdetweil Use the whole node_helper.js except as I modify it? The only thing I would modify would be the sensor pin number… All else would stay the same?
Thanks

I never saw an example of what the config.js would look like to have the vcgencmd be used to turn the screen on and off. Would someone post a part of a config.js with this in use so I can get a look at how it would be used? I would appreciate it.
Thanks all
Dennis

@shall_ Although it might help others if you don’t mind posting it here…
Thanks
Dennis

@shall_ Yes… I would like to look at it… If you would like not to post it to public, you can send it to my protected email
wg7dgxytg@relay.firefox.com
Thanks
Dennis

I saw the thread about running the script below to see if the screen would react to the vcgencmd.

/usr/bin/vcgencmd display_power 0; echo “Display should now be off”; sleep 20; /usr/bin/vcgencmd display_power 1; echo “And now it should be on again”

I did so and the screen did as advertised… My problem is I’m not sure how to incorporate this into the config.js to make my PIR work properly.

{
		module: "MMM-PIR-Sensor-Lite",
		position: "top_right",
		config: {
			sensorPin: 2, // GPIO pin
		        commandType:  "vcgencmd",  
                                }
} 

Can one of you smart people give me some ideas?
Thanks all…
Dennis

@Peter Hello Peter… I’m not sure I understand… I ran the following test on my mirror and it worked as it should.

/usr/bin/vcgencmd display_power 0; echo “Display should now be off”; sleep 20; /usr/bin/vcgencmd display_power 1; echo “And now it should be on again”

But now I need to incorporate it into my config.js for my MMM-PIR-Sensor-Lite. I see the command type and ‘vcgencmd’ but once I get that in the config how do I do the turn on and turn off?

Thanks for all the help and you also Sam.

Dennis